The Court of Appeal has dismissed Google’s appeal in judgments destined to have a dramatic impact on data protection and privacy law…
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Chris Coughlan reflects on the data protection consequences of Lenovo’s Superfish scandal….
A High Court judgment has resulted in a substantial damages award for a false review…
This is a version of Marion Oswald’s speech at the launch of the Centre for Law & Information Policy at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on 24 February 2015…
Anya Proops reports on a case in the High Court in Northern Ireland where judgment was given against Facebook in a privacy/data protection case…
There is lots of new legislation affecting IT lawyers as IT law penetrates every corner of life. It is not easy to keep track. Here are some of the items that have come to my attention recently (somewhat slanted to criminal practice because of work focused on that area), with the odd moan about them thrown in….
Alexander de Gaye reports on SCL’s Annual Data Protection Update, an event held at Fieldfisher on Wednesday 28 January 2015….
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Data Protection and Home CCTV According to the CJEU, the Data Protection Directive applies to a video recording made with a surveillance camera installed by a person on his family home and directed towards the public footpath. The Court ruled in Case 212/13 František Ryneš v Ú?ad pro ochranu osobních údaj? that those installing domestic…
Simon Deane-Johns examines that question and looks forward to the SCL events which will focus on it…
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Professor Chris Marsden explains what is behind the Openlaws.eu project and explores the current landscape of access to law in the UK….